Stephen Hawking says Aliens exist

Another thing to consider is that we're discovering more earth-like planets than we expected.

sorry but the opposite is true.

we hoped around 30% of stars would have an earth size planet in the hz. The actual number is around 3% according to the kepler data. The minimum
anyone expected was 10% so its even worse than anyone expected.

the 3% figure should rise slightly but we will be lucky to get to 10% and no way will we hit 30% as hoped before kepler launched.

Another thing to consider is that we're discovering more earth-like planets than we expected.

sorry but the opposite is true.

we hoped around 30% of stars would have an earth size planet in the hz. The actual number is around 3% according to the kepler data. The minimum
anyone expected was 10% so its even worse than anyone expected.

the 3% figure should rise slightly but we will be lucky to get to 10% and no way will we hit 30% as hoped before kepler launched.

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14-9-2011 by yeti101 because: (no reason given)

There is no kepler data as far as Earth sized worlds in the HZ yet, because it will take Kepler atleast until 2016 to do this, due to it needing 6
transits for a body that small, so claiming it is at 3 percent is a farse, since the data isnt in yet. We won't know until 2016 how common or not
Earth sized worlds in the HZ are.

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